Davis Polk – CIGNA Corporation $600 Million Senior Notes Offering

Davis Polk advised CIGNA Corporation on an SEC-registered debt shelf takedown of $600 million aggregate principal amount of its senior notes, including $300 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.375% senior notes due 2021 and $300 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.875% senior notes due 2041. BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities acted as representatives of the several underwriters for the offering.

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King & Spalding Advises on District Energy System for Island Development Project

King & Spalding announced today that it advised Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), the master developer of major tourism, cultural and residential destinations in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on all aspects of the company’s competitively bid district energy system that will service a multi-billion development project on Saadiyat, a multi-faceted island development adjacent to Abu Dhabi. King & Spalding advised TDIC on the project structure and tender process, and drafted and negotiated all of the project agreements through to closing.

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Davis Polk – ArcelorMittal US$3 Billion Registered Notes Offering

Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers of an SEC-registered offering of US$500 million aggregate principal amount of 3.75% notes due 2016, US$1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.50% notes due 2021 and US$1 billion aggregate principal amount of 6.75% notes due 2041 by ArcelorMittal.

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CMS Successfully Advises the Delhaize Group in Relation to the Acquisition

CMS in Brussels, London and Belgrade, with assistance from other CMS offices and local lawyers, has successfully advised the Delhaize Group in relation to the acquisition of Delta Maxi Group, the leading Serbian food retail company which operate more than 450 stores in five Southeastern European countries (Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania).

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Dickstein Shapiro Adds Team of Six IP Litigators; Opens Silicon Valley Office

Rapidly growing its Intellectual Property Practice on the West Coast, Dickstein Shapiro LLP is pleased to announce its expansion into Silicon Valley with the arrival of powerhouse IP litigation partners Deborah Fishman, Jeffrey Miller, and Krista Carter, as well as associates Katie Scott, Assad Rajani, and Jessica Hubley. The team represents companies ranging in size from Fortune 500 to start-ups in high-stakes patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies, as well as in patent portfolio management and patent and trademark infringement matters.

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Shearman & Sterling Advises on Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.’s $400 Million Notes Offering

Shearman & Sterling represented Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. in connection with its public offering of $300 million 4.500% Notes due 2021 and $100 million Floating Rate Notes due 2014. Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. markets, produces and distributes nonalcoholic beverages to approximately 163 million customers throughout Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. It is The Coca-Cola Company’s strategic bottling partner in Western Europe and its third-largest independent bottler globally.

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Simpson Thacher Represents Japan-Korea Consortium in $1.95 Billion Minority Investment in CBMM

The Tokyo Office of the Firm is representing a consortium comprised of Japan’s JFE Steel Corporation (JFE), Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC) and Sojitz Corporation (Sojitz) and Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) and POSCO in the acquisition of a 15% stake in Companhia Brasileria de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM) for $1.95 billion.  JFE, NSC and POSCO are three of the world’s largest steel producers, JOGMEC is a Japanese independent administrative corporation, NPS is a Korean pension fund and Sojitz is a leading Japanese trading company.

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